I hope you'll all read Khayyam after this, he was a mathematician, philosopher and astronomer and wine lover as well as a lover of beautiful people and things (my kind of men)His quatrains are fabubulous!!!

It was my understanding that the hidden meaning of ’wine’, "drunk" plays an important role in the interpretation of Khayyam as a Sufi poet,and his poems go beyond an expression of random thoughts. The thoughts of a philosopher about the ruby red liquid he fell addicted to, at an old age…

And yes, I just finished reading Geography III and how could one not be influenced by it… especially the Art of Losing (such a perfectly polished poem).